PHP? Computing is more than web pages.

I'm rooting for Clojure. Rich Hickey's presentations detailing his rationales make sense and are quite inspiring.

What I meant by that is that PHP is admittedly used widely on the web but almost nonexistent in other "niches" like game programming, kernel programming, artificial intelligence, high performance computing etc.

I'm thinking of the ecological meaning of the word niche not the meaning of "something small".

Who can say Web is niche market?

Also, I feel sick all the time when people telling me X is a new general purpose programming language that will solve all the problems.

People should be more open minded, pick the right tool for the job.